- Prepares the student with theological criteria and hermeneutic methods to face the difficulties of reading the

 Bible.

- Offers tools in order to interpret adequately the biblical text.

- Gives skills in the practice of biblical exegesis and criticism, diachronic and synchronic, paying special attention to the document of the Pontifical Biblical Commission: The Interpretation of the Bible in the Church.

- Teaches reading a biblical text in its historical, geographic, cultural, social, literary and religious context and how to deal with the sources of investigation in the field of biblical exegesis.